Reply #49: For decades I heard that Apple sucked and would go out of business within a month...

[Atman]

Of course, that was never really the case. At their low point (when they accepted Microsoft's settlement) Apple still had massive cash reserves on hand (remind me to tell you the story of the guy at MacWorld Boston who was selling genuine Apple stock certificates for $1 each -- you know, for souvenirs, placemats, whatever -- and I still didn't buy any...but I hung on to the MacWorld t-shirt because I thought it might be worth money some day).

I've been using Mac's since the Mac II, which I upgraded to 2 megabytes of RAM so it could run in color. As long as I've used Macs there has been some assclown shitting on Apple because they didn't fit into the corporate culture; their computers were toys; too simple to operate (*gasp*! We can't have that!); didn't run the right software (yawn -- how 1990's). Of course, still the most popular hater mantra that's been debunked a thousand times: Mac's are too expensive and any serious gamer could make a kick-ass system out of an old toaster and the motherboard from a Commodore Amiga. No need to re-debate it here, anyone who's read this far has heard/seen it many times. Yet, throughout all these years and all the Macs I've owned, Apple has always sucked ass to someone just as much as Microsoft has to someone else.

The only thing that has changed over the years are the supposed reasons given by the perpetual Mac haters. Where Apple used to be disdained for its very irrelevance, now the company is called Big Brother and the haters are convinced Steve Jobs is trying to take over the universe while Bill Gates is preoccupied giving away his billions to third world causes. Pretty god damned funny if you ask me.